A SpaceX rocket on Friday launched South Korea's first military spy satellite, intensifying a space race on the peninsula after Pyongyang launched its own first military eye in the sky last week

Renewed fighting in Gaza stretched into a second day on Saturday after talks to extend a week-old truce with Hamas collapsed and mediators said Israeli bombardments were complicating attempts to again pause hostilities

The Israeli army said yesterday that with the resumption of fighting it had published a map to advise Gazans of safe areas for their evacuation.

The Philippines has built a new coast guard station on the contested island of Thitu in the South China Sea, boosting its ability to monitor movements of Chinese vessels and aircraft in the busy disputed waterway.

The United Nations deplored the resumption of conflict in Gaza yesterday, describing the hostilities as “catastrophic” and urging parties to bring about a lasting ceasefire.

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Israel’s warplanes pounded Gaza yesterday after talks to extend a week-old truce with Hamas broke down, sending wounded and dead Palestinians into hospitals and others onto the streets to seek safety.

Ethnic minority fighters clashed with Myanmar’s military on a major trade route to Thailand yesterday, blocking traffic and sending people fleeing, residents and local media said.

Japan’s coastguard yesterday scoured the seabed for the wreckage of an Osprey US military aircraft that crashed this week, with still no sign of seven missing airmen.

An appeals court on Thursday reimposed a limited gag order on former president Donald Trump intended to protect court staff at his New York civil fraud trial after a flood of online abuse.

The United States on Thursday targeted North Korea with fresh sanctions after its launch of a spy satellite last week, designating foreign-based agents it accused of facilitating sanctions evasion to gather revenue and technology for its weapons of mass destruction program.

The White House National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby yesterday stressed that the US continues to improve its strategic partnership with India.

Russia yesterday said its troops were progressing in all areas of the Ukrainian front, despite observers seeing little movement more a year and a half after Moscow launched a full-scale assault on Ukraine.

Pakistan and neighbouring Afghanistan are the only two countries where polio remains endemic and vaccination teams are frequently targeted by militants

The health ministry in the Gaza Strip said 109 people had been killed in the Palestinian territory today after a truce between Israel and Hamas expired

World leaders take centre stage at UN climate talks in Dubai today, under pressure to step up efforts to limit global warming as the Israel-Hamas conflict casts a shadow over the summit..The COP28 conference kicked off on Thursday with an early victory as nations agreed to launch a "loss a

Israel's military said today it had resumed fighting in Gaza, with airstrikes and artillery fire reported in Gaza City, as a truce expired with no agreement to extend it

One person was killed, 10 were wounded and four appeared to be trapped under rubble following overnight Russian missile attacks in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region, Ukrainian interior minister Ihor Klymenko and regional officials said yesterday.

The European Parliament and EU member states agreed draft new rules yesterday that are intended to protect journalists and activists from abusive lawsuits used to silence public criticism.

An Indian government official directed an unsuccessful plot to assassinate a Sikh separatist on US soil, the US Justice Department said on Wednesday, in announcing charges against a man accused of orchestrating the attempted murder.